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Huawei has shown everyone its first Android device at the MWC without mentioning a lot of important details. So far we know the handset will sport a 5 megapixel camera, a 3.5mm headphone jack and WiFi and a large touchscreen. The phone should arrive in late 2009 and T-Mobile might be the carrier to sell it in the USA and maybe in other markets too. That’s all confirmed by a Huawei spokesman but we’re still waiting for the official press release. The phone is rumored to be called the G3 once T-Mobile gets it but that’s still long from being absolutely accurate.

Huawei indeed presented their smartphone at the MWC 2009, but only behind glass and its was more of a design dummy than anything else. There were no official presentations or a full specs sheet.

As far as rumors have it, however, the mysterious smartphone will be marketed and sold as T-Mobile G3.

Nearly five months after HTC launched the first phone based on Google’s new Android mobile operating system, the company is set to do an encore.

HTC G2 Magic

HTC’s filings with the FCC show that the company’s second Android phone–so far known as HTC Magic/Sapphire–is on the way. And in a move that shouldn’t surprise anyone, T-Mobile is the carrier again for the phone.

HTC and T-Mobile launched the first G1 Android phone on Oct. 22 for $180 in the U.S. with a two-year contract. Since then a number of companies including LG, Samsung, Garmin and Asus have said they are working on Android-based devices. But so far, none of them have made it to the market.

Meanwhile, the HTC Magic/Sapphire is gathering steam. Vodafone has said it will offer the phone starting April in parts of Europe. Now it seems likely that T-Mobile could be looking at a similar time frame for launch in the U.S.

A new Android device is in the works, and the jointly developed product from Archos and Texas Instruments will be a tablet PC with phone functionality, not merely a smartphone.

Nick Farrell the inquirer Nibble PC-like claim

Archos has announced an ultra-thin Internet Media Tablet (IMT) with a 5-inch screen and mobile phone features. This will merge Google’s Android smartphone platform with Archos’ multimedia software.

SLG Mobile, Inc. announced today an upcoming release of BeamReader for Android, a full fidelity native PDF reader for the Android platform. All document rendering will be completely native to the Android device without the need for server side pre-processing and the user’s phone does not even need to be connected to the network. The hallmark of BeamReader is its ability to render actual fonts …

— Feb. 03, 2009 — Facing a financial storm, Motorola plans to focus its smartphone efforts on Google’s Android, and put Windows Mobile on the back burner until 2010. The beleaguered cellphone manufacturer will postpone Windows Mobile development until version 7 is released next year, said Motorola in today’s conference call.

Device maker Archos says it is working on tablet-phone that will use the Android OS. Will Google Netbooks Be Far Behind?

Media-player manufacturer Archos is developing a portable tablet-phone that uses the Google Android operating system. The touch-screen device, soon to be known as the Internet Media Tablet, will be released in the 3rd quarter of 2009, the company announced. No word yet on pricing, but so far the spec sheet looks promising:

Android Community has learned that Archos is working on a Mobile Internet Device that will run Android, have phone functionality and use the TI OMAP 3 processor (same as the Palm Pre). The device…